Towards Sustainable and Usable Data Sharing Practices in Psychology: Providing an empirical test on the usability of a new documentation standard for psychological research data

In the course of the Open Science Movement and the replication crisis in psychology, as well as other disciplines, sharing research data openly has become increasingly important. However, a lack of concrete and easy-to-use standards for documenting research data in a reusable way avoids that data sharing becomes common practice in psychology. To counteract this problem, the BMBF-funded project PsyCuraDat aims at the development of a user-friendly curation standard enabling the data's long term interpretability and reusability (Blask, Gerhards, & Jalynskij, 2021). The present study is targeted at providing an empirical test of the user-friendliness of the data documentation standard developed within the project PsyCuraDat. N = 52 master psychology students will be recruited via the panel administered by the department for study planning, data collection, and data analysis services at the Leibniz-Institute for Psychology. Additionally, the research assistants employed in the PsyCuraDat project (both are master psychology students) as well as three to four of their fellow students will participate in a pilot test. Participants will be randomly assigned to a 2 (use: documentation vs. reuse) x 2(standard: yes vs. no) between-subjects design. other